CURRENT MISSION

My partner Sean and I want to unleash our senses on Europe and anywhere else we land in the world! We want to meet the people, hear their stories, speak the languages and above all, explore and taste and learn from everyone we meet and everything we se

ABOUT ME

I have many passions in life. Music, food, people, photography, languages, culture. I believe we all have a story worth telling and it is my dream to travel the world meeting people from all walks of life and sharing my life in the hope that these people will also share a piece of their life with me. I thrive being around others and engaging in energetic and passionate debates and conversations, sharing ideas, laughing and being spontaneous. I am playful and approach people with an open heart and mind

PHILOSOPHY

Everyone has a story.

In the whole scheme of life, we are only here for an insignificant amount of time, so we might as well live the lives that we want to live.

True freedom and happiness is living your truth.

Preparing and sharing meals with friends, strangers and loved ones is one of the simplest and most profound pleasures in life

The ideas and challenges that scare us most in life are the ones worth pursuing

Warum ich bei Couchsurfing bin

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love nothing more than being involved and hands on with everything around me. I am by no means a passive observer, I love equally to teach and be taught and to constantly challenge myself by actively removing myself from my comfort zone

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The majority of couch surfing I have done has been amongst friends and friends of friends. However, I have been privy to the generosity of spirit that these people show and their ability to make me feel right at home and relaxed in their home environment. Conversely, I have lived in a share house that was very open to couch surfers and there was a time where we had three people living in their cars, two in our driveway and one in our street, so I understand the generosity of both sides of the coin.

Interessen

So many! Music. Collecting old vinyl records, DJing, making mixed cds for friends, radio broadcasting, live music and gigs. Food. Preparing and sharing and eating with friends and loved ones or just for myself. Trying new food. Learning new recipes. Photography. Analogue and digital. Live gigs or black & white landscapes. Unguarded moments. People. Meeting, photographing, learning. The world around me. Reading National Geographic. Watching David Attenborough. BBC's Human Planet. Circus. Trapeze, aerial ring, clowning. Language. Mine and other people's. Words. Spoken, lyrical. Road trips. Train Trips. Spontaneity. LIFE!!!

• culture
• books
• photography
• beauty
• environment
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• coffee
• baking
• pub crawls
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• cars
• socializing
• music
• live music
• surfing
• emergency services
• languages
• road trips

Musik, Filme und Bücher

Music: Etta James, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Tom Waits, Jolie Holland, Howlin' Wolf, Hank Williams, Elvis, Dr John, Professor Longhair, Edith Piaf, Mark Lanegan, Tiny Topsy, The Coasters, Chuck Berry, Wynonie Harris, Wynona Carr, Big Mama Thornton, Roy Orbison, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Tin Hat Trio, Dirty Three, Townes Van Zandt, Magic Sam, Yann Tiersen, The 5,6,7,8's, The Bombay Royale, Cash Savage & The Last Drinks, Clairy Browne & The Bangin Rackettes, The ReChords, Mikelangelo & The Tin Star, The Bombay Royale, Billy Holiday, Django Reinhardt, Flap, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Delaney Davidson, The Devil Makes Three, Ida Cox, Bessie Smith, LaVern Baker, The Julie Ruin, The Specials, Nick Drake, Fats Domino, Santo & Johnny, The Flamingos, Phylis Dillon, Tex Williams, Roger Miller, Gillian Welch

Movies: Wes Anderson (Life Aquatic, Moonrise Kingdom, Darjeeling Limited, Rushmore etc) Cohen Brothers (Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Tho, No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading, Barton Fink), Wild At Heart, Blue Velvet, Spirited Away, The Goonies, Anchorman, Amelie, Down By Law, Night On Earth, Deathproof, Up, Howl's Moving Castle, Laputa, Withnail & I, The American Astronaut, The Shining, Singing In The Rain, Come September, Breakfast At Tiffanys, Roman Holiday, Hitchcock, Meet The Feebles, Zombieland, A Night At The Roxbury, High Fidelity, Zoolander, Being John Malkovitch, Kick Ass

Books/Authors: Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robins, John Steinbeck, Roald Dahl, Truman Capote, Christos Tsiolkas, We Need To Talk About Kevin

Eine tolle Erfahrung, die ich gemacht habe

Sean and I Spent 8 months working in a truck stop in a rural town in South Australia. A town which consisted of 45 people and one pub, two service stations, a post office, a school with two students and a police station!

We removed ourselves from everything that we knew and everyone that we loved and lived a life with very limited internet, no decent coffee, no cafes or music venues and most challenging of all, no like minded people that we felt connected to. However, as challenging as that was, we still found beauty in the simple things life in isolation had to offer. Baking bread. Playing chess. Reading books. Taking photos. Going for walks. Getting to know and eventually befriend people who we would never have come across, had we not lived and worked where we did.

Lehren, lernen, teilen

Share: music, food (I love cooking for people!), ideas, wisdom, laughter

Teach: photography, language (English), cooking

Learn: Languages (Italian, Spanish, French, Arabic) Circus (trapeze, clowning, tumbling)

Länder, die ich besucht habe

China, Indonesia, Samoa, Thailand

Länder, in denen ich gelebt habe

Australia, Japan